Blow moudler had the bottle to switch DC for AC
The advent of sensorless flux vector inverters have enabled the use of AC motors on plastics blow moulding machines and now 45kW Hitachi J300 drives are coupled with standard AC motors on the machines specified by international moulding company Lawson Mardon Fibrenyle.

Drives are the apple of a cider maker's eye
Making cider relies on a constant supply of water and at Inch's Cider, part of the Bulmers group, the maker has its own water supply and a novel way of maintaining accurate pressure in the system.

Ploughing savings back into production
A more arduous duty cycle for an inverter than that of the drive of an industrial centrifuge is hard to imagine. A plough which scrapes the solids from the walls of the basket of the centrifuge applies forces which attempts to slow it to a crawl and can play havoc with the performance of the drive.

Crane control with no rock and roll
The electrolytic manufacture of aluminium is dependent on a regular supply of carbon anodes so that the aluminium oxide (alumina) stock refined from bauxite ore, can be split into its component elements.